From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
greg@kroah.com, willy@debian.org, davem@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: C99 Initialisers
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 01:49:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030813004941.GD2184@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030812173742.6e17f7d7.rddunlap@osdl.org>
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:37:42PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> | I would much rather move the PCI ids out of the
> | drivers altogether, into some metadata file(s) in the kernel source
> | tree, than bloat up tg3, tulip, e100, and the other PCI id-heavy
> | drivers' source code.
>
> That last few lines certainly sounds desirable.
What exactly would be the benefit of this ?
The only thing I could think of was out-of-kernel tools to do
things like matching modules to pci IDs, but that seems to be
done mechanically by various distros already reading the pci_driver
structs.
Dave
--
Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-13 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-12 2:02 C99 Initialisers CaT
2003-08-12 2:18 ` Robert Love
2003-08-12 2:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-12 2:45 ` Robert Love
2003-08-12 2:57 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2003-08-12 5:38 ` Greg KH
2003-08-12 9:01 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-08-12 10:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-08-12 10:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-08-12 11:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-12 16:54 ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-12 18:01 ` Greg KH
2003-08-12 23:53 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-13 0:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-13 0:23 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 0:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-14 5:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-13 15:52 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-13 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 0:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-13 0:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 0:37 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-13 0:49 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-08-13 1:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 3:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-13 3:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 10:14 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-13 17:31 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 17:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-13 17:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 18:02 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 18:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 18:38 ` Russell King
2003-08-13 19:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 19:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-13 20:15 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 20:16 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-13 20:30 ` Matt Domsch
2003-08-13 20:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 21:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-13 22:24 ` Roman Zippel
2003-08-14 20:31 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-14 10:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-08-14 10:25 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-14 10:52 ` jw schultz
2003-08-14 12:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-08-14 12:57 ` Andrey Panin
2003-08-14 18:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-13 21:06 ` Russell King
2003-08-13 21:17 ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2003-08-13 17:50 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-13 17:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 17:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-13 17:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 18:03 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 17:58 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 18:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-13 18:09 ` Russell King
2003-08-13 20:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-13 21:17 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-13 21:26 ` Greg KH
2003-08-14 22:46 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-12 17:37 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-12 17:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-12 22:06 ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-13 15:54 ` CaT
2003-08-14 6:57 ` Maciej Soltysiak
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2003-08-12 16:52 Shureih, Tariq
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2003-08-13 21:19 ` junkio
2003-08-13 22:18 ` Greg KH
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